I have had a strange experience. I thought I'd hit the top of the pile, all arounder setup with the Hd800s > balanced hdv820 However, I plugged the headphone unbalanced into my old ps audio gcha and for classical music, the sound is so thunderously massive and dynamically musical - albeit not...

Skip to 4th paragraph to bypass personal journal entry tracing me path from inklings to revelation.  I received the GCHA from another head-fier a couple days ago. With iem ue triple.fi 10, first impressions involved how much life it sucked out of the music.  No highs, no dynamics, slow slow...

Individual components do allow maximizing the quality at every step of the output, however, I'm wondering whether the decay in signal due to interconnects etc detracts enough that a single interface, even at a lower price point, may be better?   My situation: [emu 1212m pci soundcard]  > ...

my adam a7 speakers are connected to my zhaolu dac. I turned off the power on the dac while the speakers were still on about midvolume. There was a loud sound from the speakers. Is it possible I damaged the speakers?

well sort of... Ultimate Ears makes personal custom-molded monitors for everyone from the Who to Cirque du Soleil. Now you can get headphones of similar quality without having a professional audiologist make molds of your ears, thanks to the new UE triple.fi 10 Pro. Designed to please true...

My mpx3 slam makes a fairly loud buzzing noise when it is powered up. It stays constant as long as it's on. What's the cause...?

Dear Sir , We have another DAC , Citypulse which completely beaten Zhaolu . It have upsampling 192 function and not by op amp anymore . It use a FET module , so if you don't have a Hi End pre amp , I'll highly recommended you to direct into your power amp . I also include remote control...

I have a zu ash cable, one side is rca & the other is a little different, the central thing is needle thin, and there are two rings around it (forgot what you call it, and couldn't find it on googling) my zhaolu dac does not have anything to accept the needle side, so will it be...

What are the solid state amps considered competitors of mpx3? I just feel tubes introduce too much coloration, the effect is magical when syngergistic, but and I like to listen to a wide variety of music. Can't be powering down, switching tubes, powering up, wait 15 minutes for warm up, etc.

for music, I use foobar and kernal streaming. But for movies, does any of the software have this option... wmp, realplayer, windvd, nero showtime??

What is norm's new headsave website?

Dylan says today's recordings sound ‘atrocious’ Legend fine with illegal downloads because ‘it ain’t worth nothing anyway’ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14467222/ He doesn't make his point very clearly, or maybe the article butchers it for him. His main point appears to be that the digital...

I leave my zhaolu on all the time. Today, I tried to play some music and nothing would come out. I looked through all the components, wires, restarted computer, etc. Zhaolu signal light was on. Kept wondering what it could be. Narrowing down possibilities, I switched the zhaolu off and back...

Thoughts on the implementation of HRTF type technology so the sound is truly out there - when it'll be implemented, if anyones interested, its effects on audio, any experiences, second hand, etc. just curious

these sound like they were made at home, especially after going back and forth between the k701's. rs-1's sound hollow, and the bass doesn't sound good generally. not a refined sound at all. I can see how some people feel they give a more immediate and intimate sound, because the soundstage...

I read someone went to target and got it, i called them but they don't have it. Does anyone know any other retailer/shop. If you get it through online ends up coming out to $40... ten bucks more. thanks

After the insignia speakers find, I looked around for impressions on the T-amp. I don't have a speaker amp and need to find one for the insignia's. Initial impressions said these were giant killers. Many months have passed since, and I searched through long-term impressions here, and on...

anyone agree/disagree, have different experience? soundstage is much more natural and coherent on k701 vs hd650. For example if there's a guitars going on left and right channel, they don't really fit in the image, they're off to the left and right, while the singers in middle. With k701, the...

Will playing music through soundcard into zhaolu without the amp on burn it in?

I got a zhaolu 2.0 d2c, and I have it hooked up by optical out from emu 1212m to the zhaolu optical in, the mute keeps glashing and the signal light doesn't go on. I've tried switching things in patchmix but can't get any sound.

I have a zu ash cable that goes from rca to BNC male. I need to hook it into a zhaolu, which only has the female rca. Does anyone have a recommendation for where to get an adaptor. Radio shack only sells the Monster one which is a pack of 5 for $25

HI. I have an mpx3 and now a zhaolu dac. The power cord that comes with the zhalou is generic, for the mpx3 I have a aural thrills audio expensive one. Theoretically, which component should get the best PC? (i believe this has been asked before, I tried a search under different terms...

I read in an old thread i searched that you shouldn't switch headphones while the amp is on. I also read that you shouldn't switch your tube amp on and off frequently. at least give it 10 minutes after shut off before touching tubes or turning it on again, etc. So I have k701 and hd650...

I have been listening to a fairly wide selection of decent recordings in flac. With my hd650's there's not much hiss, but with my k701's there's a bit of background hiss on a lot of recordings. What's going on? Are the high's that much recessed on the hd650's?

HI. I have an mpx3 slam, and changing from cry'od Tung sol 5687 to sylvania 5687 it seems like I have to put the pot higher to get the same volume. Does this happen? or is it something else, like maybe I find something lacking in the sylvania's and need to give them a subconscious boost...